THE NEW YORKER THE. 51t Y LINE. Romance iJZ Brick- Loltts and Scarabæus- TIle Gate RJay AgaiJz D LTRING the h ea ted term New Yark's slogan has been. "Business as usuaL" There has been no rest for the steel work- ers and masons, and the city will present an appreciably altered silhouette to those returning by land or sea. Where spring saw yawning excava- tions or the spiky beginnings of a framework, now stand completed buildings. One of the most interesting of the downtown newcomers is the Inter- national Telephone Building, one of the many Lefcourt operations. The odd-shaped corner at Beaver and Broad Streets, with its oblique angle, offered difficulties which have been picturesque- ly surmounted by Buchman & Kahn, the architects. The rising elements of the design, with the necessary setbacks, are handled with, perhaps, a little too much freedoln, for the total result is rather confusing. But it is a building at which une pauses to gaze as its varied contour meets the eye. It has the romantic quality which we have learned to expect of its designers. The agreeable tan of the brickwork and supporting stone is diversified by honest brick detail, panels, pierced balustrades, balconies, and buttresses. Throughout, the use of brick is inven- tive and well studied. The lower floors which form the hase of the building are extreIl1ely siIl1ple, the smooth stonework being touched in but two places with rchitectural de- tail, which in each case is effective. Over the corner en trance, which leads to the offices of the All AIl1erica Cables Company, is a sturdy keystone on which stands a modern Mercury I equipped with a handflll of electricity and a coil of telephone wire. The lintel of the side, or office, entrance is adorned by a brace of aerial messenger t boys who appear to be planing through I I a severe thunder and lightning storm. These emblematic creatures are artfully i ;::,dapted and well designed. I I T R.ll VELLING up Broad Street, past the Exchange, one sees the pallid bulk of the huge Chase National Bank bUJlding. Viewed through the 67 ....; "' 1 '" 1 f i a i /f;l fJ . J' i ', ' . , ( .. "': r f;: a , ) l ,/'i:';" '.{flf" ." 't;; ;. .. "> ' ?ì' ....d l! à Fl? 11 F ; . ' v'-';;:" "<"' ", ,,;:.. 1, :;, ' r" ..-:f.Í'-,' ,, .' j, .'.: '. r '; . ' ' " '!.. STAVT "'()U1:2 ()A." W Til A ,"()I:! <<7 f)LU <<7 I f ) i i f J I i . i i ;. ! ( f: ! ; í , ,\ TEN-MINUTE FROliC hefore hreakfast in the largest indoor swimming pool in New York is one of the privileges that makes living at The Park Central delightfully different. The pool is fed with clear sparkling water from our own artesian well drilled 550 feet deep through solid rock. HIGHEST ROOF in all New York i I up in the clouds &S'; . where COQI breezes ? I blow. ivr r . . DINE --- 1 1 I DAN<-jI .:J{-- Famous music of - r, The Park Ct>ntral \\ \ Orchestra and an ï. \ unusually high /J \ orderoCentertain- ment. , LUNCHEON DINNER SUPPER ; í r t " ï; ) J I I . I I f I , I t 4 , ! j i FIFTY...FIFTH STREET at 7th A VENUJ I , . - - :::" '::'-''':':.:::''':' '!:':==Ë? "":-... .....*. ':.)I(À" t.t.___'""_' 4 ..,... . . \""'Jfl6_"''''- -''''''''''''''''''''''''----''''''' ''''''''''-''''' '--..''''-7-' If_' ' "" "-""""''''''''' ---1'''''''''''''''''-''^''''' :'- '''' . * . .J C , 1 . c:::I""' ' : R _ ",..A 1. ........ ... ...... ......_'Op"""""" _, ....",-- .._ ...-..,.t .y. - ...""c... ....,..- ... ........-........... .,c f :.- - .L - "IJ#" d...oJ." v "A> ..-!. " _,....., ... ......... ...,....,. ............... .. ---===- .::..-== ,;;::=.. @ -....,......;.,__ __ . , .."'.. . :: ;;; ' '''_,.. , '':::..:''; .. .r ...:.... ... ... -:--== ... Period salons and roof patios for private functions. . . radio outlets · · · electric refrigeration . . . serv- ing pantries. Furnished or unfurnished apartments of 2 to 6 rOOß1S available for immediate occupancy b.y the day, month, or year at surprisingly low rentals v TIi [21\ C I [2 A Select Residential Hotel With TransIent Accommodations